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Why Should McDonald's Be Allowed to Exist?

Podcast: Earnest Mann - Earnest Perspectives · Earnest Mann

Opublikowano: 2026-11-02

Whatever happened to the price on the sign? There's a diner I used to eat at where the menu had a coffee ring laminated into the plastic, and every price was printed in ink — same number for me as for the guy on the next stool. That's what a price used to be. A fact. McDonald's says AI does not set its menu prices, that franchisees set prices and the tools only recommend. A federal lawsuit filed in Chicago alleges the platform uses transaction data to set prices across thousands of independently owned restaurants. The wo...